Inside the Alchemist’s Workshop

Alchemist Heating a Pot, by David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690), oil on canvas.

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David Teniers the Younger, a seventeenth-century Flemish painter, had a serious thing for alchemy. Over the course of his career, Teniers painted some 350 different scenes, illustrating just about every aspect of alchemy imaginable. All of Teniers’ alchemical scenes, however, show the alchemist’s workshop as a place of experimentation and inquiry–a space full of instruments integral to the experiments, tools that were built and maintained through a plethora of different technologies.
In Teniers’ best-known painting, Alchemist Heating a Pot, an elderly alchemist anxiously leans forward, carefully handling a small bellows, fanning oxygen into a small fire under a ceramic vessel. The old man is surrounded by a variety of instruments–glass jars and flasks are artfully arranged on his shelves, ceramic containers are strewn throughout his workshop, a pair of tongs leans up against the desk, and a clay crucible sits on on a small stool. More than anything else, Alchemist Heating a Pot conveys the sense that alchemy–itself part chemistry, part speculative philosophy–is a science that is unequivocally and completely dependent on its instruments. There are at least five different tools at work in just that small segment of Teniers’ painting.
Alchemy is one of the most curious subjects in the history of science–it evokes both method and magic in popular imagination. Teniers brilliantly juxtaposes light and shadow in his paintings, leaving the viewer unsure just how illuminating alchemy really is.

At its very core, alchemy focused on the notion of transmutation–the ability of one element to morph into another, especially the ability to turn elements into gold. (If Rumpelstiltskin had only been so lucky!) In order to understand elements on their most basic level—in order to extrapolate how to transmute one into another—alchemy focused its experimental efforts on the processes of distillation, sublimation, and crystallization and how they affected different materials. Exploring these processes, however, required sophisticated tools and technologies as well as scientific means and methods.

And just what kinds of tools filled alchemy’s workspace? As depicted in Teniers’ workshops, we see alchemy’s experimental space function as a precursor to the modern scientific lab. Where we might expect to find beakers, microscopes, and computers in contemporary labs, we instead find instruments like crucibles, flasks, and alembics in alchemical workshops.

An alchemist working in a laboratory. from Pyrosophia by Johann Conrad Barckhausen (1698) via Wikimedia Commons

An 16th century engraving of an alchemist using flute, as depicted in The mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy by C. J. S. Thomson (1897) via Wikimedia Commons

Understanding the process of distillation–the purification of a substance or the creation of a concentrate from a liquid mixture–occupied considerable experimental interest and required specific tools. To that end, alchemists relied on three primary components: cucurbits, alembics, and lutes–tools that were then assembled into complex apparatuses, which were heated to separate substances into their purest forms.

Cucurbits were round containers made to hold the substance being distilled from one thing into another. Cucurbits were generally made of glass, copper, or earthenware ceramic. (Their name comes from the Latin cucurbita or “gourd,” in reference to their shape.) The alembic was a rounded glass head with a beak that fitted on top of the cucurbit–perhaps the most iconic of alchemy’s laboratory tools. Alembics varied considerably depending on the amount of condensation or sublimation the alchemist wanted to coax out of the original mixture. Consequently, the glass heads could be rounded, cylindrical, beaked, or bulbous. The joint between the two was sealed using lute, a sticky mixture that often contained dung, egg whites, and clay.

After alchemical apparatuses were assembled, liquid was added to the cucurbit and the gourd-like vessel was nestled in a bed of sand or ashes and heated to begin the distillation process. As the liquid boiled and evaporated, it condensed in the alembic, and the distillate was then directed out of the alembic’s beak and into a container of some sort. The hope was that the distilling process would transmute one substance into another. For distilling dry materials, alchemists also used a tool called a retort, which had a shorter height than the traditional alembics.

Alchemy’s emphasis on questions of transmutability meant that the science was heavily invested in the design, construction, manufacture, and maintenance of tools suitable to its methods. In early modern Europe, alchemical tools were integral to setting up successful experimental practices, particularly through the use of specific glass technologies, ceramic manufacture, and a sophisticated manipulation of fire through fuel and furnaces. Alchemist Heating a Pot is the quintessential depiction of these tools and technologies.

Isis, Vol. 102, No. 2 (2011), pp. 330-337The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society

Isis, Vol. 102, No. 2 (2011), pp. 305-312
The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society

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Over the past 40 years that we've been researching and developing the Alchemists theories and practices of holistic alchemy. We investigated the whole spectrum of how and why these microscopic charged particles effected the human body and came to the conclusion that due to the entire body's electrical circuitry through which all instructions from and to the brain are carried, lies the answer to our good health and the boosting of our system to fight and restore damaged cells. So it is somewhat comforting to see our findings validated almost everyday by the so called latest medical breakthroughs which are turning treatments from chemical drugs to this latest discovery of using some form of electrical devices or electrical micro hardware to insert into the human body to do its magic. We here at Alchemists Workshop believe that this can be accomplished with the use of almost nano-sized charged particles of Ultrafine Colloidal Gold, Silver, Copper and Zinc; all of which can enter individual blood cells throughout the human body to kill off germs, viruses, bacteria, allergens and pathogens; stimulate and repair broken or damaged cells including muscle, bone, cartilage and all soft tissue.

22.02.2014THE GOLDEN HOURS OF SLEEP a vital necessity!
Because we know that ultrafine colloidal gold calms the entire neuro-system and enters into the brain where it also calms down over active neurons and relieves stress; we know from our clients around the world that they have conquered their own sleep problems while working in a stressful environment, - by taking our colloidal gold at night time prior to going to bed.

article published by Daily Mail newspaper UKSCIENTISTS LATEST DISCOVERY OF THE SLEEP SWITCH

Scientists think they have discovered the switch in the brain that tells our bodies when to go to sleep
Professor Gero Miesenböck, whose team conducted the research, said: ‘When you’re tired, these neurons in the brain shout loud and they send you to sleep.’
The researchers demonstrated the theory on fruit flies, removing the switch to create insomniac insects.

They are convinced the same molecular system which forces neurons to fire works in the human brain.
Dr Jeffrey Donlea, who co-authored the study in the journal Neuron, added: ‘There is a similar group of neurons in a region of the human brain.

Researchers are trying to find out how to activate the sleep switch is so that it can be used to treat insomnia.

WE LOSE 85 HOURS A YEAR JUST BY PRESSING THE SNOOZE BUTTONWhen the alarm clock goes off in the morning it is all too tempting to reach across and hit the snooze button.
But those extra minutes in bed add up all too quickly. A new survey has found that on average we lose 85 hours a year to the alarm clock snooze function.
Sleep psychologist Chireal Shallow said: ‘We snooze for many reasons, predominantly because we want to squeeze as much sleep out of the night as possible, and often still feel tired when we wake.
‘This is especially true in the winter months as we need to wake whilst it’s still dark outside, which means our bodies do not get a chance to awake naturally.
‘Snoozing is the way we, as humans, attempt to mitigate the lack of sleep, or how tired we feel by trying to wake up gradually and gently.’
The survey of 1,000 people, conducted by cereal brand Fuel, found that the average Briton sets their alarm for 06.58am, but most could not peel themselves out of bed until 7.12am.
Nearly a third - 29 per cent - put their alarm clock on the other side of the room in an attempt to force them out of bed.
One in ten have been sacked or bagged a written warning at work for being late because of snoozing.
‘These neurons are also electrically active during sleep and, like the flies’ cells, are the targets of general anaesthetics that puts us to sleep.
‘It’s therefore likely that a molecular mechanism similar to the one we have discovered in flies also operates in humans.’
Researchers are now trying to find out how to activate the sleep switch is so that it can be used to treat insomnia.

Dr Diogo Pimentel, who also worked on the project, said: ‘The big question now is to figure out what internal signal the sleep switch responds to. ‘What do these sleep-promoting cells monitor while we are awake? If we knew what happens in the brain during waking that requires sleep to reset, we might get closer to solving the mystery of why all animals need to sleep.’
Professor Miesenböck said there are probably two mechanisms that regulate sleep patterns.
One is the body clock, the circadian rhythm which attunes humans and animals to the 24 hour cycle of day and night.
The other - the sleep ‘homeostat’ - keeps track of waking hours and acts as a switch to make the body nod off.
Professor Miesenböck said: ‘The body clock says it’s the right time, and the sleep switch has built up pressure during a long waking day.
‘The sleep homeostat is similar to the thermostat in your home. A thermostat measures temperature and switches on the heating if it’s too cold.
‘‘The sleep homeostat measures how long a fly has been awake and switches on a small group of specialized cells in the brain if necessary. It’s the electrical output of these nerve cells that puts the fly to sleep.’
ed cells in the brain if necessary. The researchers demonstrated their theory by removing the homeostat neurons from the brains of a group of fruit flies.
They found the insects without the relevant neurons did not have regular sleep - they turned into insomniacs and were prone to nodding off at irregular hours.
They had severe learning and memory deficits, in the same way that sleep loss in humans leads to problems.
Dr Donlea said: ‘We discovered mutant flies that couldn’t catch up on their lost sleep after they had been kept awake all night.’

Above info published by Daily Mail UK
based on research from:- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627313011434

November 19th 2010

As we should all be aware, the value of the Dollar is dropping in proportion to the amount of extra dollars being printed under the name of Quantitive Easing. Consequently the value of precious and primal metals is now hitting unbelivable prices on the world markets.

It is because of this, for example the cost of gold has now more than doubled and we will have to increase our prices after December 2010 after our current stocks run out. At this time we do not know houw much our costs and thus the costs ofour colloidals will have to be raised early in 2011. We apologize for these forthcoming increases which unfortunately are beyond our control.

All the following info on Alchemy is offered as links to Wikipedia.org below:- FEB 08 2017